When you try to install opensuse from network CD then you will see that
comparing to KDE Live CD, the start of the disk is terrible slow. At some point
booting up is almost frozen. I took a look at console level to see what is
going on and there are 6 steps of loading installation system -- each step is
1KB (yes, 1024 bytes) and it takes a bit to load it and even more to wait after
100% of loading is shown -- my guess is there is some uncompressing, but how
long can it take to uncompress 1KB chunk of data?